VLC: Multimedia player for all platforms (Free app)
VLC is a libre and open source media player and multimedia engine, focused on playing everything, and running everywhere.
VLC can play most multimedia files, discs, streams, devices and is also able to convert, encode, stream and manipulate streams into numerous formats.
VLC is used by many over the world, on numerous platforms, for very different use cases.
The engine of VLC can be embedded into 3rd party applications, and is called libVLC.
VLC is part of the VideoLAN project and is developed and supported by a community of volunteers.
The VideoLAN project was started at the university École Centrale Paris who relicensed VLC under the GPLv2 license in February 2001. Since then, VLC has been downloaded billions of times.
Platforms
macOS (Inel, and M1), Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, BSD, Haiku undefined
License
GPLv2
Tags
tools,utilities,macos,video,audio,player,mpeg,mp4,videos,players,video player,multimedia,mp4,mp3,mpeg,avi,quicktime